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The QC, Vol. 89, No. 15 • January 30, 2003

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The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914
January 30,2003
QUAKER CAMPUS
http://web.whittier.edu/qc
Unregistered campus
cars to get "the boot"
■ PARKING
by Christina Gutierrez
QC News Editor
In an effort to reduce the number
of unregistered cars in Whittier's parking lots, Campus Safety will be implementing the use of a vehicle immobilization device, commonly referred to
as "the boot," on illegally parked vehicles. According to Chief of Campus
Safety Bernard Alex, the new policy,
along with a restructuring of the fine
schedule for parking tickets, will go
into effect on Feb. 6, the first day ofthe
spring semester,
According to Alex, any vehicle
thatastudent,eitherresidentialorcom-
muter,regularly parks oncampus must
beregistered with Campus Safety. With
the implementation ofthe new policy,
if a vehicle receives three tickets for
failure to register, Campus Safety will
vehicle's tire, making it impossible for
the tire to turn, and thus rendering the
vehicle immobile. Students who receive five tickets in a semester for any
kind of infraction will also find the
boot attached to their cars.
"Once we boot a few cars
and students know about
it those who have a
caviler attitude [toward
illegal parking] will know
that something can hap-
- pen to them."
Bernard Alex
Chief of Campus Safety
Students whose cars have been
"booted" must notify Campus Safety,
who will remove the boot with a special key. There will be a $50 charge for
the removal of the boot, on top of the
placethecircularmetaldeviceontothe charge for any unpaid tickets. The
Kolev appointed,
Remsberg out
■ COR
by Christina Gutierrez
QC News Editor
During a closed portion of the
COR meeting on Monday, Jan. 19,
junior Kiril Kolev was appointed as
Executive Treasurer, and Freshman
Class President Anna Remsberg was
removed from her position.
Although Kolev has never served
on COR, Winters described him as
"exactly what we're looking for. He's
the most qualified and has been very
active on campus." Kolev has served
asPresident ofthe Bulgarian Club and
treasurer of the Economics Club, as
well as the Internet Editor of the Quaker Campus.
Because of his experience in these
positions, Kolev said that he is "aware
of some of the problems clubs can run
into while dealing with COR. In a
sense, by deciding to apply for the position, I challenged myself to see what
it's like to be on the other side because
sometimes it is easy to accuse a certain
individual or organization for not doing well, but ittakes courage to actually try to improve the situation."
According to Winters, Kolev has
already begun working. "He has already filled half of his budget committee and started working on new policies," he said. "[Kolev] has jumped
right in."
Kolev plans to work to improve
communications and efficiency between COR and the Office of Student
Activities to speed up club reimbursements. "I believe that good relations
between the two offices as well as the
Business Office will allow us to make
clubs more willing to do business with
us," he said.
Kolev is optimistic about the potential ofthe now-filledExecutive cabinet. "[We have] the right mixture of
experience and new ideas," he said.
"This makes me feel very confident
that we will certainly do well and keep
campus life going and hopefully get
more students involved."
At the same meeting in which
Kolev was appointed, COR voted
to remove Remsberg from her position as Freshman Class President.
According to COR President Zach
Winters, the Council voted Remsberg
out of her position because she violat-
student will also have to register his or
her car if they have not already done
so. The student will have the option of
paying in cash or charging the fine to
his or heron-campus account. 'This is
an enforcement tool; we want to cut
down on chronic offenders,'' Alex said.
The mandatory registration of vehicles is largely for identification purposes, Alex said, but many students
fail to register their cars. "It's a common secret that if you don't register
your car you won't have to pay for
parking tickets because Campus Safety will not have any way of getting
information about whose car it is,"
Alex said.
Campus Safety has given out 1,100
tickets for unregistered cars in the last
three years. Because of students' attitude toward parking and registration,
Campus Safety believes that giving
out tickets is not an effective deterrent
See PARKING, page 6
ALLISON CORONA / QC PHOTOGRAPHER
Corporal Ken Walton demonstrates the placement of the
vehicle immobilization device, "the boot," on the tire of a Ford
Taurus. The boot will be used to enforce the vehicle registration requirement for cars that regularly park on campus.
See COR, page 6
Caceres bound for Kuwait
as part of Iraq war effort
■ MILITARY
by Amy Stice
QC Interim Editor-in-Chief
Two years ago, when Raquel
Caceres envisioned the end of her
senior year, she thought about things
like taking the LSAT, landing an
internship, and graduating with her
Thalian Society sisters. And although she had joined the Army
reserves as a way to pay for her
college education and serve her
country, she had enlisted during
peacetime and never imagined putting her familiar life on hold for
active duty.
But that's exactly what happened. As the United States moves
closer to taking military action in
Iraq, Caceres has joined the thousands of soldiers preparing for active duty overseas in what has become the largest mobilization effort since the 1990 Gulf War. She
was scheduled to graduate in May,
but has temporarily withdrawn from
the College and is now in Oakland
doing radio operations training in
preparation for her deployment. On
Saturday, she will travel to Wash
ington's Fort Lewis to spend a week
picking up her uniform and equipment, taking health sand weapons
qualifications tests, again, and being briefed on her impending mission in Kuwait, where U.S. troops
are being stationed in preparation
for war. As an army transportation
management coordinator, Caceres
will be responsible for clearing paths
in the field, guiding soldiers to their
destinations and coordinating reconnaissance missions.
And although Caceres is ready
to fulfill her job, leaving school and
her life at home, she said, was hard.
"First of all, I'm going to miss
my family," she said. "Second, I'm
supposed to graduate. Things like
not graduating with my friends,
missing family events and birthdays—that's all stuff you can't retake."
Alumnus in similar
position in earlier war
Jason Trumpler ('97) can empathize. He was around 20 years old
when he joined the reserves, inspired by a long history of family
military service and the influence
of his mentor, Professor of Political
Science Fred Bergerson. Trumpler
left Whittier College in the fall of
his senior year, when his reserve
unit was called to Bosnia in 1995.
He came back to finish two years
later and while he recalls having a
hard time socially readjusting (his
best friends and roommates had
graduated), he says leaving and then
returning to academics was not very
difficult—in part thanks to the personal relationship he had with professors at the College.
"I found out I was leaving on
Thanksgiving Day, 1995, and I went
in Monday and made arrangements
with my professors to finish up my
classes," Trumpler said. "We were
the first group of reservists to be
See WAR, page 6
Correction
In last week's story, "Society numbers up for women, down for men,"
senior Armilla Staley should have
been credited with a description of
what Athenian Society pledges
were looking for when they chose
to join the society.
ISSUE 15* VOLUME 89
We got some stuff
Really, we do. It's right
there. Letters, a column,
some cheers and jeers. It's
a party, and you're invited!
Opinions, Page 2
It's a Rocky Road
Mmm...Ice cream would be
mighty tasty in the less than cool
Death Valley. Come and rock out
with us...tee hee.
Campus Life, Page 7
Conan & Tacos
You won't get a talk show host or
have to make a run for the border,
but we do cover Mexican food that
you'd raid a small Norse village for.
A&E, Page 10
Swing Batter Batter
Baseball and tennis get started,
and the winter sports keep on
truckin'. Meanwhile swimming
and diving do a belly flop.
Sports, Page 14

The Voice Of Whittier College Since 1914
January 30,2003
QUAKER CAMPUS
http://web.whittier.edu/qc
Unregistered campus
cars to get "the boot"
■ PARKING
by Christina Gutierrez
QC News Editor
In an effort to reduce the number
of unregistered cars in Whittier's parking lots, Campus Safety will be implementing the use of a vehicle immobilization device, commonly referred to
as "the boot," on illegally parked vehicles. According to Chief of Campus
Safety Bernard Alex, the new policy,
along with a restructuring of the fine
schedule for parking tickets, will go
into effect on Feb. 6, the first day ofthe
spring semester,
According to Alex, any vehicle
thatastudent,eitherresidentialorcom-
muter,regularly parks oncampus must
beregistered with Campus Safety. With
the implementation ofthe new policy,
if a vehicle receives three tickets for
failure to register, Campus Safety will
vehicle's tire, making it impossible for
the tire to turn, and thus rendering the
vehicle immobile. Students who receive five tickets in a semester for any
kind of infraction will also find the
boot attached to their cars.
"Once we boot a few cars
and students know about
it those who have a
caviler attitude [toward
illegal parking] will know
that something can hap-
- pen to them."
Bernard Alex
Chief of Campus Safety
Students whose cars have been
"booted" must notify Campus Safety,
who will remove the boot with a special key. There will be a $50 charge for
the removal of the boot, on top of the
placethecircularmetaldeviceontothe charge for any unpaid tickets. The
Kolev appointed,
Remsberg out
■ COR
by Christina Gutierrez
QC News Editor
During a closed portion of the
COR meeting on Monday, Jan. 19,
junior Kiril Kolev was appointed as
Executive Treasurer, and Freshman
Class President Anna Remsberg was
removed from her position.
Although Kolev has never served
on COR, Winters described him as
"exactly what we're looking for. He's
the most qualified and has been very
active on campus." Kolev has served
asPresident ofthe Bulgarian Club and
treasurer of the Economics Club, as
well as the Internet Editor of the Quaker Campus.
Because of his experience in these
positions, Kolev said that he is "aware
of some of the problems clubs can run
into while dealing with COR. In a
sense, by deciding to apply for the position, I challenged myself to see what
it's like to be on the other side because
sometimes it is easy to accuse a certain
individual or organization for not doing well, but ittakes courage to actually try to improve the situation."
According to Winters, Kolev has
already begun working. "He has already filled half of his budget committee and started working on new policies," he said. "[Kolev] has jumped
right in."
Kolev plans to work to improve
communications and efficiency between COR and the Office of Student
Activities to speed up club reimbursements. "I believe that good relations
between the two offices as well as the
Business Office will allow us to make
clubs more willing to do business with
us," he said.
Kolev is optimistic about the potential ofthe now-filledExecutive cabinet. "[We have] the right mixture of
experience and new ideas," he said.
"This makes me feel very confident
that we will certainly do well and keep
campus life going and hopefully get
more students involved."
At the same meeting in which
Kolev was appointed, COR voted
to remove Remsberg from her position as Freshman Class President.
According to COR President Zach
Winters, the Council voted Remsberg
out of her position because she violat-
student will also have to register his or
her car if they have not already done
so. The student will have the option of
paying in cash or charging the fine to
his or heron-campus account. 'This is
an enforcement tool; we want to cut
down on chronic offenders,'' Alex said.
The mandatory registration of vehicles is largely for identification purposes, Alex said, but many students
fail to register their cars. "It's a common secret that if you don't register
your car you won't have to pay for
parking tickets because Campus Safety will not have any way of getting
information about whose car it is,"
Alex said.
Campus Safety has given out 1,100
tickets for unregistered cars in the last
three years. Because of students' attitude toward parking and registration,
Campus Safety believes that giving
out tickets is not an effective deterrent
See PARKING, page 6
ALLISON CORONA / QC PHOTOGRAPHER
Corporal Ken Walton demonstrates the placement of the
vehicle immobilization device, "the boot," on the tire of a Ford
Taurus. The boot will be used to enforce the vehicle registration requirement for cars that regularly park on campus.
See COR, page 6
Caceres bound for Kuwait
as part of Iraq war effort
■ MILITARY
by Amy Stice
QC Interim Editor-in-Chief
Two years ago, when Raquel
Caceres envisioned the end of her
senior year, she thought about things
like taking the LSAT, landing an
internship, and graduating with her
Thalian Society sisters. And although she had joined the Army
reserves as a way to pay for her
college education and serve her
country, she had enlisted during
peacetime and never imagined putting her familiar life on hold for
active duty.
But that's exactly what happened. As the United States moves
closer to taking military action in
Iraq, Caceres has joined the thousands of soldiers preparing for active duty overseas in what has become the largest mobilization effort since the 1990 Gulf War. She
was scheduled to graduate in May,
but has temporarily withdrawn from
the College and is now in Oakland
doing radio operations training in
preparation for her deployment. On
Saturday, she will travel to Wash
ington's Fort Lewis to spend a week
picking up her uniform and equipment, taking health sand weapons
qualifications tests, again, and being briefed on her impending mission in Kuwait, where U.S. troops
are being stationed in preparation
for war. As an army transportation
management coordinator, Caceres
will be responsible for clearing paths
in the field, guiding soldiers to their
destinations and coordinating reconnaissance missions.
And although Caceres is ready
to fulfill her job, leaving school and
her life at home, she said, was hard.
"First of all, I'm going to miss
my family," she said. "Second, I'm
supposed to graduate. Things like
not graduating with my friends,
missing family events and birthdays—that's all stuff you can't retake."
Alumnus in similar
position in earlier war
Jason Trumpler ('97) can empathize. He was around 20 years old
when he joined the reserves, inspired by a long history of family
military service and the influence
of his mentor, Professor of Political
Science Fred Bergerson. Trumpler
left Whittier College in the fall of
his senior year, when his reserve
unit was called to Bosnia in 1995.
He came back to finish two years
later and while he recalls having a
hard time socially readjusting (his
best friends and roommates had
graduated), he says leaving and then
returning to academics was not very
difficult—in part thanks to the personal relationship he had with professors at the College.
"I found out I was leaving on
Thanksgiving Day, 1995, and I went
in Monday and made arrangements
with my professors to finish up my
classes," Trumpler said. "We were
the first group of reservists to be
See WAR, page 6
Correction
In last week's story, "Society numbers up for women, down for men,"
senior Armilla Staley should have
been credited with a description of
what Athenian Society pledges
were looking for when they chose
to join the society.
ISSUE 15* VOLUME 89
We got some stuff
Really, we do. It's right
there. Letters, a column,
some cheers and jeers. It's
a party, and you're invited!
Opinions, Page 2
It's a Rocky Road
Mmm...Ice cream would be
mighty tasty in the less than cool
Death Valley. Come and rock out
with us...tee hee.
Campus Life, Page 7
Conan & Tacos
You won't get a talk show host or
have to make a run for the border,
but we do cover Mexican food that
you'd raid a small Norse village for.
A&E, Page 10
Swing Batter Batter
Baseball and tennis get started,
and the winter sports keep on
truckin'. Meanwhile swimming
and diving do a belly flop.
Sports, Page 14